Travel Tip: Classical Music in United StatesBates: Liquid Interface

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Mead Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates created Liquid Interface in 2006, inspired by the various states of water, from frozen to evaporated. The work was composed after the time Mason Bates spent living on Berlin’s Lake Wannsee. Liquid Interface explores water in various climates. Movement by movement, Bates’ music explores increasingly warmer regions, one of which is New Orleans, dubbed the Crescent City because of its geographical location along a bend in the Mississippi River.